Jones County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m340 ft 100 m250 ft 75 m170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jones County averages about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 130 ft on the southeast side to 460 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the county
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the southeast side
Jones County spans about 330 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Laurel.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 65,837 2024 est.
- Land area
- 694.8 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 95 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Smith County390 ft
- Jasper County380 ft
- Covington County340 ft
- Jones County260 ft
- Wayne County250 ft
- Forrest County230 ft
- Perry County180 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi50th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,689th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Buffalo Hill410 ft
- Old Meeting House Hill290 ft
All 8 towns in Jones County by typical elevation
- Soso320 ft
- Sharon280 ft
- Sandersville280 ft
- Laurel250 ft
- Ellisville230 ft
- Moselle220 ft
- Ovett210 ft
- Eastabuchie180 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.